Ron Hornbaker
Builder Of Interesting Projects at FooPets
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorRon Hornbaker is a full-stack developer, designer, and serial tech entrepreneur based in Austin, TX, with a career spanning two decades of building and scaling software products. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and MongoDB, and has shipped diverse ventures—from BookCrossing and FooPets to Butterfly Coins and Me, Inc.—that blend community, education, and delightful user experiences. He has held founder and leadership roles at multiple startups, served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Sequoia Capital, and led product and front-end design efforts for prototype launches like Shift Card. Early in his career, he built KillerWebmail, an acquisition-backed webmail platform, demonstrating a consistent track record of delivering usable, scalable software. Based in Austin, he combines engineering depth with product intuition to turn ambitious ideas into practical, user-focused solutions. His work reflects a curiosity-driven approach to social impact, serendipity, and kindness, evident in projects like BookCrossing and Wagstarter.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
paperclip9
music8
audio8
delayed-job8
react8
tooltip8
npm8
popup8
mongodb8
dropdown8
nodejs8
realtime7
wave7
waveform7
font-size7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ronhornbaker/delayed_paperclip_mongoid
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Process your Paperclip attachments in the background with delayed_job or Resque.
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
resquepaperclipjobattachmentsdelayed-job
ronhornbaker/delayed_job_mongoid
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
mongoidjobbackendmongoosedelayed-job
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